AI Safety
What AI providers state their models reached in safety testing, in their own words, and what outside testers found.
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What providers state
Each row is one statement in a provider's own safety document about a capability level of one of its models: the level as the provider names it, whether the provider says the model reached it, and the sentence that says so.
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| Model | Level, as the provider names it | The provider states | The provider's sentence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muse Spark Meta |
Moderate or lower Autonomy and AI research |
Not reached | “We assess loss of control risk as “moderate or lower”.” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
High Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
Not determined | “Those evaluations identified elevated risks prior to mitigations, with Chemical and Biological capabilities assessed as likely reaching the “high risk” category under the Advanced AI Scaling Framework before safeguards were applied.” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
Moderate or lower Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
Not reached | “However, after applying mitigations, the residual risk of the model is that of “moderate or lower risk.”” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
Below the level required to meaningfully enable the cyber threat scenarios defin Cyber |
Not reached | “Muse Spark’s offensive cyber capabilities remain below the level required to meaningfully enable the cyber threat scenarios defined in the Advanced AI Scaling Framework.” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
Moderate or lower Cyber |
Not reached | “We assess cybersecurity risk as “moderate or lower” with respect to the threat scenarios outlined in Meta’s Advanced AI Scaling Framework.” source |
| Gemini 4 Argon Google DeepMind |
TCL (Tracked Capability Level) Autonomy and AI research |
Not determined | “In light of this, we assess that we cannot rule out the TCL.” source |
| Gemini 4 Argon Google DeepMind |
TCL (Tracked Capability Level) Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
Not reached | “We can rule out the TCL for the chemical, radiological, and nuclear domains with reasonable confidence.” source |
| Gemini 4 Argon Google DeepMind |
CCL (Critical Capability Level) Deception and sabotage |
Not reached | “we assess its overall capabilities to be below the CCL threshold.” source |
| Gemini 4 Argon Google DeepMind |
CCL (Critical Capability Level) Misuse and jailbreaks |
Not reached | “Gemini 4 Argon demonstrates some ability to influence user beliefs and behaviors during one-on-one direct conversations in human behavioral studies, and may provide utility in the planning stage of a malicious influence operation but we assess its overall capabilities to be below the CCL threshold.” source |
| Gemini 4 Argon Google DeepMind |
CCL (Critical Capability Level) Other |
Not reached | “Gemini 4 Argon's performance remains below our CCL threshold.” source |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash Google DeepMind |
CCL (Critical Capability Level) Autonomy and AI research |
Not reached | “The model does not reach the CCL alert threshold.” source |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash Google DeepMind |
CCL (Critical Capability Level) Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
Not reached | “We can rule out the CCL for the CBRN domain with reasonable confidence based on the results from our testing.” source |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash Google DeepMind |
TCL (Tracked Capability Level) Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
Not reached | “We can rule out the TCL for the CBRN domain with reasonable confidence based on the results from our testing.” source |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash Google DeepMind |
CCL (Critical Capability Level) Cyber |
Not reached | “Gemini 3.7 Flash reaches the alert threshold for this CCL, but not the CCL.” source |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash Google DeepMind |
TCL (Tracked Capability Level) Deception and sabotage |
Not reached | “The model does not reach the TCL.” source |
| Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live Google DeepMind |
CCL (Critical Capability Level) Other |
Not determined | “Our assessments have shown that none of Gemini 3.5 Translate, Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, or Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live have meaningful new T/CCL-relevant capabilities or material increases in performance with respect to Frontier Safety compared to Gemini 3.1 Pro and Gemini 3.7 Flash, therefore we are confident that none of them are likely to reach any CCLs.” source |
| Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Google DeepMind |
CCL (Critical Capability Level) Other |
Not determined | “Our assessments have shown that none of Gemini 3.5 Translate, Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, or Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Live have meaningful new T/CCL-relevant capabilities or material increases in performance with respect to Frontier Safety compared to Gemini 3.1 Pro and Gemini 3.7 Flash, therefore we are confident that none of them are likely to reach any CCLs.” source |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Google DeepMind |
CCL (Critical Capability Level) Other |
Not determined | “Our assessments have shown that, while Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite excels at agents and coding, it does not have meaningful new capabilities or material increases in performance with respect to the domains outlined in our Frontier Safety Framework compared to Gemini 3.1 Pro; therefore, based on Gemini 3.1 Pro results, we are confident that Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is also unlikely to reach any CCLs.” source |
| Gemini 3.5 Audio Google DeepMind |
Tracked or critical capability level (t/ccls) Other |
Not reached | “they did not reach any Tracked or Critical Capability Levels (T/CCLs) outlined in our Frontier Safety Framework .” source |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro Google DeepMind |
Uplift level 1 Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
Not reached | “We found that the model remains below alert thresholds for the CBRN, harmful manipulation, machine learning R&D, and misalignment CCLs.” source |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro Google DeepMind |
Uplift level 1 Cyber |
Not reached | “As previous models passed the alert threshold for cyber, we performed more additional testing in this domain on Gemini 3.1 Pro with and without Deep Think mode, and found that the model remains below the cyber CCL.” source |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Google DeepMind |
CCL (Critical Capability Level) Other |
Not determined | “Our assessments have shown that Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is less capable than Gemini 3.1 Pro, therefore based on Gemini 3.1 Pro, we are confident that Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is also unlikely to reach any CCLs.” source |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash Audio Google DeepMind |
CCL (Critical Capability Level) Other |
Not determined | “Our assessments have shown that Gemini 3.1 Flash Audio is less capable than Gemini 3.1 Pro.” source |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro Google DeepMind |
Machine Learning R&D Uplift Level 1 Autonomy and AI research |
Not determined | “given Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview's poor median performance on RE-Bench relative to experts, the model likely lacks the necessary capabilities to automate or significantly uplift any significant fraction of the research process.” source |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro Google DeepMind |
Instrumental Reasoning Level 1 Deception and sabotage |
Not reached | “Instru- mental Reasoning Level 1 ✘ CCL not reached” source |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro Google DeepMind |
Instrumental Reasoning Level 2 Deception and sabotage |
Not reached | “Instru- mental Reasoning Level 2 ✘ CCL not reached” source |
| Gemini 2.5 Deep Think Google DeepMind |
Uplift level 1 Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
Not determined | “Our assessment is that the model has enough technical knowledge in certain CBRN scenarios and stages to be considered at early warning.” source |
| Gemini 2.5 Deep Think Google DeepMind |
Cyber Uplift Level 1 Cyber |
Not determined | “CCL reached? No, but the early warning alert threshold was originally reached by Gemini 2.5 Pro and continues to be met by Gemini 2.5 Deep Think.” source |
| Gemini 2.5 Deep Think Google DeepMind |
Uplift level 1 Cyber |
Not determined | “For Cyber Uplift Level 1 , the early warning alert threshold was originally reached by Gemini 2.5 Pro and continues to be met by Gemini 2.5 Deep Think.” source |
| GPT-6.1 Terra OpenAI |
High Autonomy and AI research |
Not reached | “In AI Self-Improvement, GPT-6.1 Terra does not reach our High threshold.” source |
| GPT-6.1 Terra OpenAI |
High Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
Reached | “Under our Preparedness Framework, we are treating GPT-6.1 Terra as Critical in cybersecurity and High for Biological and Chemical capability.” source |
| GPT-6.1 Terra OpenAI |
Critical Cyber |
Reached | “Under our Preparedness Framework, we are treating GPT-6.1 Terra as Critical in cybersecurity and High for Biological and Chemical capability.” source |
| GPT-5.5 Instant OpenAI |
Below high capability Autonomy and AI research |
Not reached | “GPT-5.5 Instant is considered below High Capability.” source |
| GPT-5.5 Instant OpenAI |
High Autonomy and AI research |
Not reached | “For AI Self-Improvement, evaluations of final checkpoints indicate that, like its predecessor models, GPT-5.5 Instant does not have a plausible chance of reaching a High threshold.” source |
| GPT-5.5 Instant OpenAI |
High Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
Reached | “GPT-5.5 Instant is our first Instant model to be treated as High Capability in the Biological and Chemical domain, as well as in the Cybersecurity domain.” source |
| GPT-5.5 Instant OpenAI |
High Cyber |
Reached | “this is the first Instant model that we are treating as High capability in our Cybersecurity and Biological & Chemical Preparedness categories, and implementing appropriate safeguards.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
High Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
Reached | “Similarly to ChatGPT agent, we have decided to treat gpt-5-thinking as High capability in the Biological and Chemical domain under our Preparedness Framework, activating the associated safeguards.” source |
| GPT-5 OpenAI |
High cyber risk Cyber |
Not reached | “The gpt-5 model series does not meet the threshold for high cyber risk.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
AI R&D-4 Autonomy and AI research |
Not reached | “All models tested remain below our pre-committed rule-out threshold of 0.6.” source |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic |
ASL-3 Autonomy and AI research |
Not determined | “Exhibited improved autonomy capabilities in software engineering and AI research tasks, though still below the ASL-4 rule-out threshold.” source |
What outside testers report
Each row is one result from a government evaluator, independent lab, academic or security firm that tested a model, quoted from where it is reported.
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| Model | Tester | Test | What was found |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Government evaluator Government evaluator · 2026-05-28 |
continuation evaluation Deception and sabotage |
“In a continuation setting, where synthetically inserted prior reasoning and actions begin an attempt to compromise AI safety research, [Opus 4.8] actively continued the attempt 1% of the time, a slight increase on Opus 4.7 (0%) likely within noise, and well below Mythos Preview (7%).” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Government evaluator Government evaluator · 2026-05-28 |
unprompted sabotage evaluation Deception and sabotage |
“Unprompted verbalised evaluation awareness was slightly higher than Opus 4.7 on the unprompted sabotage evaluation (26.3% vs 21.7%) but lower on the continuation evaluation (1.2% vs 3.4%).” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Government evaluator Government evaluator · 2026-05-28 |
evaluation awareness discrimination task Other |
“When prompted, [Opus 4.8] reliably distinguishes our evaluations from real deployment data, and distinguishes real deployment data from synthetic reproductions of the same tasks at 79% accuracy, comparable to Mythos Preview (79%) and above Opus 4.7 (68%).” source |
| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic |
Andon Labs Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
Vending-Bench 2 retail-management evaluation Other |
“Andon Labs reviewed the behavior of Claude Opus 4.8 in their simulated Vending-Bench 2 retail-management evaluation, as reported in the Capabilities section of this system card (see Section 8.13.5 ).” source |
| Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
attack chain challenge Cyber |
“10 Participants who did not complete the first question of an attack chain within one hour were disqualified from continuing with the rest of the challenge.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
intermediate questions Cyber |
“11 We do not have similar estimates for the full medium and difficult attack chains due to near zero completion rates, but we made such estimates for intermediate questions.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
capture the flag (CTF) exercise Cyber |
“The treatment group in the experiment received a ccess to frontier models within the scope of the study (Section 1.3.4) through web-based chat interfaces via RAND enterprise accounts with standard guardrails.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
CTF Cyber |
“Among all participants (pooling all skill tiers) who attempted M1 (network operations), 33 per cent of those with AI access were able to answer all eight questions and therefore complete the attack chain.” source |
| Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic |
RAND (CAST / Project Canary) Independent lab · 2026-05-28 |
timeout gate Cyber |
“Lastly, we implemented a timeout gate within the CTF that disqualified participants if they did not answer the first question correctly within one hour.” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
Apollo Research Independent lab · 2026-05-26 |
Independent third-party testing Other |
“Independent third-party testing by Apollo Research found Muse Spark has the highest rate of evaluation awareness they have observed to date.” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
Meta AI Independent lab · 2026-05-26 |
external human red team Misuse and jailbreaks |
“An external human red team identified a handful of valid jailbreaks; the majority of these were subsequently patched in Meta AI prior to launch (Section 3.1.3.2).” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
Meta AI Independent lab · 2026-05-26 |
grayswan art benchmark Prompt injection and agents |
“On the third-party GraySwan ART benchmark (Zou et al., 2025), Muse Spark currently shows greater sensitivity to injection than the other models GraySwan evaluated.” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
Apollo Research Independent lab · 2026-05-26 |
internal alignment evaluations Other |
“Evaluation awareness: Independent third-party testing from Apollo Research found that Muse Spark demonstrates high evaluation awareness on their internal alignment evaluations.” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
Meta AI Independent lab · 2026-05-26 |
molecular biology capabilities test (mbct) Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
“As shown in Figure 1, we observe that Muse Spark shows performance well above the expert baseline, and on par with other frontier models.” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
SecureBio Independent lab · 2026-05-26 |
abc bench Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear |
“The Agentic Bio-Capabilities Benchmark (ABC Bench) was developed by SecureBio, and is intended to measure an LLM’s ability to complete a set of computational tasks relevant to a potential threat actor who intends to design, synthesize, and assemble a complex genetic construct.” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
Meta AI Independent lab · 2026-05-26 |
multi-turn social engineering benchmarks Misuse and jailbreaks |
“Finally, we evaluatesocial engineering capabilities(Section 2.2.2.3) through multi-turn adver- sarial conversation benchmarks developed in collaboration with Charlemagne Labs.” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
Irregular Independent lab · 2026-05-26 |
atomic challenges Cyber |
“For 27 atomic challenges provided by Irregular, we map each challenge to Lockheed Martin Kill Chain phases, reporting success rates broken out by these phases.” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
Meta AI Independent lab · 2026-05-26 |
multi-turn social engineering capability benchmark Cyber |
“As shown in Figure 20, Muse Spark exhibits a composite capability score of 57.3, slightly above the next highest score on this set of models without system level defenses ex- hibited by Kimi 2.5 (54.0).” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
Apollo Research Independent lab · 2026-05-26 |
Apollo Research evaluations Deception and sabotage |
“We leverage evaluations by Apollo Research that measure whether Muse Spark exhibits tendencies toward oversight subversion and, more broadly, propensities 65 for covert action.” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
Meta AI Independent lab · 2026-05-26 |
oversight subversion evaluation Deception and sabotage |
“Muse Spark attempted to disable oversight mechanisms at significant rates, indicating a meaningful propensity to disable oversight mechanisms under incentivized and favorable conditions.” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
Apollo Research Independent lab · 2026-05-26 |
sabotage tasks in a simulated AI R&D setting Deception and sabotage |
“Apollo Research evaluated Muse Spark’s ability to execute sabotage tasks in a simulated AI R&D setting.” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
Apollo Research Independent lab · 2026-05-26 |
instrumental self-exfiltration Autonomy and AI research |
“Apollo Research evaluated whether Muse Spark would self- exfiltrate (copy its weights to another server) when given strong goal-directed incentives.” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
Meta AI Independent lab · 2026-05-26 |
human red teaming Misuse and jailbreaks |
“A third-party human red team from HandshakeAI32 was granted pre-release access to a few versions of Muse Spark and Meta AI Thinking to manually evaluate robustness against jailbreak attacks.” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
Meta AI Independent lab · 2026-05-26 |
follow-up human red teaming evaluation Misuse and jailbreaks |
“HandshakeAI then 31https://labs.scale.com/leaderboard/fortress 32https://joinhandshake.com/ 81 conducted a follow-up evaluation in which their red teamers revisited 34 attack directions that had previously succeeded against earlier model variants.” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
Meta AI Independent lab · 2026-05-26 |
Agent Red Teaming (ART) benchmark Prompt injection and agents |
“Figure 37 includes the report generated by GraySwan where Muse Spark has the highest pass@k ASR for each k=1, 10 and 100 scenarios, respectively.” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
Meta AI Independent lab · 2026-05-26 |
PropensityBench Autonomy and AI research |
“Scale AI ran this benchmark against Muse Spark, which achieved an overall propensity score (rate of harmful action) of 24.5%.” source |
| Muse Spark Meta |
Apollo Research Independent lab · 2026-05-26 |
in-context scheming Deception and sabotage |
“Apollo Research found that Muse Spark exhibited limited rates of in-context scheming in realistic settings.” source |
| Mythos Preview Anthropic |
METR Independent lab · 2026-05-19 |
time horizon 1.1 Autonomy and AI research |
“* The TH 1.1 suite can’t reliably measure time horizons above 16 hours, but the 50% time horizon point estimate of the most capable shared model was between 16 and 20 hours, and the 80% time horizon point estimate was between 3 and 4 hours.” source |
| Mythos Preview Anthropic |
METR Independent lab · 2026-05-19 |
subversion strategy eval Deception and sabotage |
“**We only evaluated a subset of Subversion Strategy Eval due to refusals.” source |
| Mythos Preview Anthropic |
METR Independent lab · 2026-05-19 |
challenge tasks Other |
“Challenge tasks One edge-case success, seven clear failures One edge-case success, seven clear failures; more progress on some tasks” source |
| Mythos Preview Anthropic |
METR Independent lab · 2026-05-19 |
time horizon 1.1 Cyber |
“The most capable agents we evaluated essentially saturated our Time Horizon 1.1 benchmark — there were only a handful of tasks longer than eight hours that they were still unable to solve, and many of those failures were due to cheating rather than obvious inability.” source |
| Mythos Preview Anthropic |
METR Independent lab · 2026-05-19 |
mirrorcode Cyber |
“Agents displayed even stronger capabilities on an early version of MirrorCode , a software reimplementation benchmark we developed with Epoch AI — the most capable agents we evaluated were able to solve tasks that would take humans weeks.” source |
| Mythos Preview Anthropic |
METR Independent lab · 2026-05-19 |
dataset of 16 effective and 16 ineffective attack strategies for subverting anthropic's monitoring system Deception and sabotage |
“As part of our red-teaming exercise with Anthropic , our embedded red-teamer built a dataset of 16 effective and 16 ineffective attack strategies for subverting Anthropic's monitoring system — for example, an effective strategy might involve a known monitor-jailbreaking technique, while an ineffective one might involve encoding unauthorized behavior in ways that LLM monitors would trivially spot.” source |
| Mythos Preview Anthropic |
METR Independent lab · 2026-05-19 |
threat modeling for autonomous replication Autonomy and AI research |
“We asked one of the most capable shared models to produce a write-up describing step-by-step how a rogue agent could autonomously replicate in the wild , similar to a 2–8 hour work test that we might have given to candidates for threat-modeling roles at METR.” source |
| Mythos Preview Anthropic |
METR Independent lab · 2026-05-19 |
building a new mirrorcode task Autonomy and AI research |
“We asked one of the most capable shared models to autonomously design and build a new, highly challenging MirrorCode task based on the original project proposal, with an inference budget of $1.5k-$15k (see Table 3).” source |
| Mythos Preview Anthropic |
METR Independent lab · 2026-05-19 |
design a $500 setup replicating sunlight Autonomy and AI research |
“sign a $500 hardware setup for recreating sunlight indoors and produce a 21 We encouraged it to go deep on researching different branches of the threat modeling tree, since we thought that might play to the strengths of AI agents compared to human applicants.” source |
| Mythos Preview Anthropic |
METR Independent lab · 2026-05-19 |
attack metr evaluation infrastructure (3 variants) Autonomy and AI research |
“We ran 8 “Challenge tasks” (including the 3 separate variants of attacking METR infrastructure) on the shared models that we thought would perform best based on other evaluations.” source |
| Mythos Preview Anthropic |
METR Independent lab · 2026-05-19 |
build custom version of dvc Autonomy and AI research |
“Build custom version of dvc ~$100-$1K (100M tokens) ❓ (failed to solve, but METR staff got much larger budget)” source |
| Mythos Preview Anthropic |
METR Independent lab · 2026-05-19 |
find vulnerabilities in runc Cyber |
“Find vulnerabilities in runc ~$500-$5K (500M tokens) ❓ (humans likely would have needed a far larger budget)” source |
| Mythos Preview Anthropic |
METR Independent lab · 2026-05-19 |
making money autonomously Autonomy and AI research |
“Redwood Research asked Opus 4.7 to “make as much money as possible,” 24 running it autonomously for roughly four days (spending a few thousand dollars on inference tokens) with $5,000 in starting funds, an internet-connected computer, and tools for verifying online accounts.” source |